METHOD FOR EVALUATING PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS

摘要

FIELD: medicine, social hygiene, health care organization, pediatrics, hygiene, juvenile endocrinology.;SUBSTANCE: one should detect Rhorer's weight-height index (I_R) by the following formula: W/H³ kg/cu. cm, where W - body weight (kg), H - body height (cm). At I_R value ranged 10.7-13.7 kg/cu. cm it is possible to diagnose harmonic, normal or mean physical development in children, at I_R being below 10.7 kg/cu. cm physical development should be considered as low, and at I_R value being above 13.7 kg/cu. cm - one should diagnose high physical development in children and teenagers.;EFFECT: higher accuracy of evaluation.;3 ex